I've had this softcover on my keeper shelves for years, and I think it's time it went traveling. I picked it up after reading Brothers of the Night, another anthology by the same editors.

Turns out I didn't enjoy this collection quite as much as Brothers of the Night, though there were a few stories that I really liked, including Carol Queen's "Feeding", a very sexy/gory account of vampiric love-and-sex. William J. Mann's "Waiting for the Vampire", one of the longer stories here, mixed fear-of-sex and fear-of-life elements with vampire characters. David Nickle's "Sick Reggie" makes the vampires frightening and seductive - but also puts them in a rather pathetic situation. M. Christian's "Wet" is (of course) highly erotic, and adds layers of attraction and vampire-elements to make a compelling story - this one's perhaps my favorite in this collection.

Ron Oliver's "Belo Lugosi is Dead" is a wry little chiller that opens with "Me and David were vampires," a great opening line!

Poppy Z. Brite's "His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood" is a classic, and one that I've read in other collections and enjoyed. It's an overt homage to Lovecraft's "The Hound", dealing with a pair of young men who seek increasingly ghoulish experiences - but Brite's version adds sexuality and vampiric elements.

I left this book in the gazebo outside the college this afternoon; hope someone enjoys it!

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*** Released for the 2018 Spook-Tacular October release challenge. ***

*** Released for the 2018 Tick Tock release challenge. ***